Re: RFD: comp.std.cli

Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 17:22:51 -0500
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On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 10:20:12 -0700, Russ Allbery <email-address-deleted>
wrote:
>Jim Riley <email-address-deleted> writes:
>
>> How is "CLI" meaningful? It's an abbreviation. Why would a longer name
>> make it harder to find the group? Wouldn't it also make it easier for
>> people to avoid the group? If you had looked for such a group a month
>> ago, and next month it pops up among the new groups in your newsreader,
>> isn't common-language-infra more likely to attract your attention than
>> cli.
>
>So, do you think that comp.lang.common-business-oriented-language is
>clear?
Is that name even used? Looking at the standards definition pages
they refer to a "Programming Language COBOL". A web search on "cobol"
doesn't find anything not related to the computer language.
>Do you know what's discussed in that group? Would you be able to
>find it if you wished to discuss that topic? Would you locate it with a
>keyword search if you had no idea to look in comp.lang.* for such things?
A web search on cli found:
CLI library (Apache Software Foundation)
CLI Caller Line Identity
Both of which could be subject to standards discussion in the comp.*
hierarchy, and the following unrelated topics.
CCLI SongSelect and Lyric Service interfaces
ComputerLab International
Computational Logic, INC
Clì - Na Gaidheil Ùra (charity representing new Scots Gaelic speakers)
Cyberspace Law Institute
CLI Group (an engineering group)
CLI Magazine: The product magazine for clinical biologists
A search of ISO's site (www.iso.org) on "CLI" returns SQL/CLI
(Call-Level Interface), ISO/IEC 9075-3:1999.
A search on "Common Language" finds ISO/IEC 23271:2003.
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Jim Riley